More Teacher-Munching, Snot Ziplines and Endangered Species

I'm now reading the final monster descriptions. Among the selection are monsters by year 2 at Morton Trentside Primary School, Gainsborough, a slightly older class from Broadway Primary in Rossendale and a couple more pupils from St Edwards.

Here are some of my favourite parts:

'He eats teachers and he loves hair.' and 'JoJo eats teachers that look very yummy.' - two anonymous writers from Morton Trentside.

These are the forth and fifth monsters that eats teachers! I shall make sure that there's a teacher-eating monster on the short list because it's obviously a very popular idea.

Harrison W from Broadway has shed some light on why monsters enjoy eating teachers so much: 'He eats humans. His favourites are teachers because they have juicy brains.'

'He likes food and also he likes squishy eyeballs.' - Anonymous, Morton Trentside.

'Squishy' is a brilliant word. It's one of my favourite words for writing about monsters.

'My evil, spiky, angry monster is called JoJo. JoJo has 4 bulging, dark red eyes. He has purple skin. He has razor sharp fangs and he has 30 pointy spikes.' - Anonymous, Morton Trentside.

This is superb description from a child from year 2. Look at all those great words like 'bulging' and 'razor sharp'. A great author in the making.

'My monster doesn't make a sound because he hasn't got a mouth.' - Anonymous, Morton Trentside.

I wonder how this monster eats. Does he have to stuff food up his nose, I wonder...? Or maybe in his ears...

'It can take its eyeball out and lift it up.' - Anonymous, Morton Trentside.

Ugh! How totally vile - brilliant for a monster book.

'He has got weaknesses which are running and singing into a microphone' - Anonymous, Morton Trentside.

This made me laugh. I'm imagining a vile monster with a horrible roar trying to sing a sweet love song or nursery rhyme - disaster!

I really line the names 'Professor Clipclops' and 'Blaster Stink' by two children from Morton Trentside. Also, 'Spotocus' by Charlie from Broadway, 'hobbogruff' by Levi from Broadway, 'Frangie pot monsters' by Lily from Broadway and 'funbat boop' by Natalie from Broadway,

'My monster can run as fast as a cheetah with black spots.' - Anonymous, Morton Trentside.

Above is a great simile.

'The monster for tea eats bogies and for dinner cupcakes with slime.' - Anonymous, Morton Trentside.

Ugh! What yucky monster food. Perfect for our book.

'Big Foot smells as sweet as roses, but his farts let him down, they smell as violent as a thousand rotting corpses at the bottom of the deepest darkest dungeon.' - Madeline from St Edwards.

Some very vivid imagery from Madeline. The the contract between Big Foot's usually rose-like smell and his bottom burps make the bottom burps seem even fouler than they would otherwise. The simile is very strong.

'The Gogldigook has blood worms living in his hair and they climb into his sticky, rotten-egg-smelling ears that have green fungus hanging off them.'

More vivid imagery, this time from Harrison C from Broadway. He's done a great job of making his monster really revolting. It's but me write off my sandwich!

'Snobbly Bobbly are rancid creatures; they have a green, slimy bodies with warts all over him that ooze and pop.' - Harrison W from Broadway.

This is a great description. Firstly, because the word 'ooze' is an ideal word to use when describing something disgusting. Secondly, because 'pop' is an example of onomatopoeia - a word that, when read aloud, sounds similar to the sound it's describing.

'The Flobby Blobby stinks like rotten eggs, blue cheese and cow manure put into a bag and put in the street for a rat to come and eat it.' - Harry, from Broadway.

Another imaginative simile there from Harry.

'The lazy monster is very smelly it smells worse than it’s own breath and that smells like he eats rotten eggs, the rubbish out of a bin, skunk on top with dog poo as a dip.' - Joseph from Broadway.

Joseph's written another creative smell.

'Their awful stench will knock you out! They smell so rank; like they have been dipped in rotten milk and then shoved down a sewer pipe. - The power of the odour!' - Lucy from Broadway.

A well-written paragraph from Lucy. She's used showing ('will knock you out') as well as telling ('so rank'). Then she'd used a decent simile, before rounding it off with a strong phrase: 'The power of the odour'.

'My monster can make anything with its gooey slimy snot, straight from his upside down nose, e.g. a trampoline.' - Drew from Broadway.

This is a very imaginative idea. It also conjures up a disgusting image in my brain - trolls bouncing on a big patch of snot!

'Swampy has a lot of cool abilities like a snot zip line that comes out swampy’s nose for emergencies.' - Harry from Broadway.

Harry also found an imaginative use for snot. Who would have thought it was so versatile?

'These disgusting creatures are very rarely seen by humans, since they are an endangered species.' - Kathryn from Broadway

Kathryn's brought some of her knowledge about the environment to her monster, which makes it even more interesting.

'His ears are so big birds have built a nest in one of them.' - also Kathryn from Broadway

This is a good example of showing the reader what a monster is like, as well as just telling.

'This monster has a super belly bounce so when people won’t get out of his way, he belly bounces them and they go flying at about one mile an hour.' - Katie from Broadway.

This is very funny. It could lead to hilarious scenes in a book.

'He likes playing golf, with a ball made from crushed cars.' - Lewis from Broadway.

An original variation on a golfing hobby.

'Jammy Wammies likes flaming red socks and lovely, tiny owls that are brunette. But when he finds the pair together he can’t resist and has to eat them up!' - Alice from Broadway.

This does sound like a worrying habit! It would lead to some interesting story twists.

'This frightful creature will give a fright to any mountain climber! Not even the strongest and the bravest men could escape the grasps of the mountain giant, as he feeds on the fear and the flesh of humans.  But there is one key flaw to this ravenous creature - its strange fear of bunny rabbits.' - Thomas from Broadway.

This is funny because the fear of bunny rabbits is unexpected. It would be hilarious if a monster was chasing a mountain climber then suddenly saw a little, fluffy rabbit and ran away in terror.